Saint Louis Missouri-1964: A Cone-Shaped Church Tower Under Construction

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Saint Louis Missouri

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A Cone-Shaped Church Tower Under Construction — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a tall, cone-shaped church tower under construction in Saint Louis, Missouri. A crane lifts materials to the upper levels as workers assemble the structure against a pale sky. The footage shows the tower's distinctive silhouette and scaffolding, with power lines visible in the final frame. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century urban development and religious architecture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127733320

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1616 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1961-1964
Reel-level location note: saint louis
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s archival home-movie footage for edits needing urban construction, church architecture, or mid-century Saint Louis development context.
Period detail: The frame may show 1960s construction methods through the exposed tower structure, ladder-like staging, crane rigging, and sparse skyline details.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, looking upward from street level as the camera follows the tall tower and crane work.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall tapered tower, crane boom and rigging, upper platform, ladder-like scaffolding, pale sky, film frame edges, and utility poles.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld drift, visible grain, color fading toward blue and violet, and contact-frame borders that support its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, construction insert, architectural transition, or memory beat for mid-century church or city-building sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually situates religious architecture within a changing urban landscape, with construction equipment and utility lines framing the tower.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even if faces are not clear here; copyright, property, and location claims should be checked separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1964 Saint Louis church tower construction, 8mm urban building footage, cone-shaped tower scaffolding, and mid-century Missouri home movie may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1964 Saint Louis footage, then construction, religious architecture, tower, and urban development clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Saint Louis home-movie frame showing the upper portion of a tapered church tower under construction with crane rigging overhead. — A crane reaches over the unfinished top of a tapered church tower.

1964 Saint Louis frame showing the upper tower structure, crane cables, and exposed platform near the top of the church construction. — The camera holds on the tower top and crane lines during construction.

1964 Saint Louis home-movie frame with the tower side filling the view, showing ladder-like staging and rigging near the top. — The tower’s side and staging dominate the frame as the camera tilts upward.

1964 Saint Louis frame showing the church tower under construction, with ladder-like staging, crane structure, and utility poles below. — Utility poles appear below the unfinished tower, placing the construction within a street setting.

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